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Kids can't read good / The UFO's are back / Get ready to play video games in your car

They can't add either

Keith Conrad
Sep 10
 
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Nation's Report Card Finds Record Low for 12th Grade Reading and Broad Declines in Math and 8th-Grade Science

That seems less than ideal

Bombshell new video shows US military's direct hit on glowing UFO with hellfire missile

Listen, I 100% think there’s something weird going on with the government and UAP’s… but this just so happens to surface when some elected officials really don’t want to the Epstein files. Interesting


More Stories Below, but first some new content in the News Sidequest Podcast Universe…


Auditory Anthology

SCI-FI SHORT STORIES - NARRATED BY DARREN MARLAR & PRODUCED BY KEITH CONRAD
Tales From the Blue Line: A weary ER nurse's late-night delivery to the hospital's records department leads her to a disorienting, shadow version of the building where time and reality are bent, and she is a ghost of a different time.

Tales From the Blue Line - The 24-Hour Shift

Keith Conrad / Darren Marlar

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Dave Norman on Chops, Sound, and the Art of Making Music

AS I WAS SAYING WITH BIG JOHN HOWELL
John Howell sits down with longtime friend and powerhouse trumpet player Dave C. Norman to talk range, tone, studio politics, teaching, and why “higher, faster, louder” isn’t the destination.

Dave Norman on Chops, Sound, and the Art of Making Music

Big John Howell

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The Mascot Distraction: Smoke, Fire, and Trump’s Culture War Playbook

THE CHICAGO SMOKEHOUSE WITH BIG JOHN HOWELL AND RICK TELANDER
Big John Howell and Rick Telander tackle everything from Trump’s resurrection of racist mascots to the enduring grift of American demagoguery.

The Mascot Distraction: Smoke, Fire, and Trump’s Culture War Playbook

John Howell / Rick Telander

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Also Worth A Look…

  • Xbox Is Coming to Cars Thanks to an LG and Microsoft Partnership - People are going to be playing video games in their cars. What’s the worst that could happen?

  • Apophis flyby in 2029 will be the first time a potentially hazardous asteroid has been visible to the naked eye - Might want to set your 401k to “Aggressive.” Actually, there’s no chance it’ll hit the Earth in 2029. But that won’t stop the click-baity headlines

  • Almost half of the world's diabetes cases are going unreported, study finds - Wilford Brimley was unavailable for comment

  • Most US adults think individual choices keep people in poverty - That’s a lot of people making poor personal choices

  • TikTokers Accidentally Take Flight to Tunis—Not "to Nice" in France - Oops… well, there’s plenty of cool stuff to see in Tunis

  • Publishers fear AI summaries are hitting online traffic - There’s a new potential problem… people just reading AI instead of the actual articles

  • Online conspiracy theories rife after 16 election candidates die in Germany - In fairness, if 16 candidates died I’m not sure it’s unreasonable to go full Alex Jones in response

  • Coldplay kiss-cam mistress Kristin Cabot’s husband makes bombshell revelation after scandal went viral - Not exactly shocking, but their marriage didn’t make it

  • Girl Scouts Adding a New Cookie to the Lineup - Did they learn nothing from the blow up over Cracker Barrel?

  • 'Kissing Bug' Sickness Now Endemic in US - Well, there’s another thing I didn’t know I needed to be worried about

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